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Nicolas Brunel: A Theoretical Physicist Investigates the Brain
Monday, November 13, 2017If you want to know how a physicist thinks about the brain, talking to Nicolas Brunel is a good place to start. Brunel, who joined the Duke faculty in July as a professor of neurobiology and physics, uses the tools of statistical physics to illuminate the workings of the brain’s neural networks... Read More »
Prof. Charbonneau's Collaboration Simulates Deeply Supercooled Liquids
Thursday, November 2, 2017Prof. Patrick Charbonneau's collaborative algorithm developed to study deeply supercooled liquids has been featured on the Duke Research Blog. Click here to read "Cheating Time to Watch Liquids do the Slow Dance." Photo Credit: Misaki Ozawa and Andrea Ninarello, Université de... Read More »
Profs. Springer and Walter Named 2017 APS Fellows
Thursday, October 12, 2017The American Physical Society today announced that both Prof. Roxanne Springer and Prof. Chris Walter have been elected Fellows! The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise, and election is restricted to 0.5% of the membership in any given year. Thus,... Read More »
2017 Graduate Student Awards
Wednesday, October 11, 2017The 2017 graduate student awards and fellowships were distributed before the October 11th Colloquium by Associate Chair for Teaching Prof. Steffen Bass. Congratulations to all recipients on their accomplishments and for each prestigious recognition. The Henry W. Newson Graduate Fellowship... Read More »
Staff Member Vines Cast in Community Performance of Sister Act
Tuesday, September 12, 2017The Physics Department's Grants & Contracts Administrator, Miriam Vines, holds a bachelors degree in Theatre & Dance. When she's not working for Physics, one of her hobbies is participating in community theatre with The Gallery Players in Burlington, NC. Last November she performed with the... Read More »
Alum Kundtz to be Inducted into Grad School's Few-Glasson Society
Wednesday, September 6, 2017Alumnus Nathan Kundtz (PhD '09) will be inducted as a 2017 member of Duke Graduate School's Few-Glasson Alumni Society. The society recognizes graduates who have distinguished themselves through their career accomplishments, the potential of their... Read More »
Prof. Mikkelsen Wins 2017 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award
Monday, August 28, 2017Prof. Maiken Mikkelsen has won the 2017 International Society for Optics + Photonics (SPIE)'s Early Career Achievement Award. Only one is given each year worldwide and is presented in recognition of significant and innovative technical contributions in the... Read More »
Department Members Share their Total Eclipse Experiences
Thursday, August 24, 2017The Physics Department chartered a bus which took 50 members of the community to the eclipse's path of totality on Monday, August 21, 2017. The group traveled to Bryson City, North Carolina at the Swain County Event Park adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Prof. Ronen Plesser... Read More »
2017 DOE Early Career Awards Go to Two of Our Own
Friday, August 11, 2017Himmel Congratulations are in order: Former Neutrino Group postdoc Alex Himmel, now a Wilson Fellow at Fermilab, and Richard Longland, Assistant Professor of Physics at NC State and member of TUNL, have been honored with Early Career Awards from the Department of Energy.... Read More »
COHERENT Collaboration First to Observe Coherent Elastic Neutrino Scattering
Thursday, August 3, 2017The COHERENT Collaboration's 32-lb neutrino detector has observed coherent elastic scattering, before only theorized and something scientists have been trying to see for forty years. Read the team's paper "Observation of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering" in Science here.... Read More »